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316, Lot: 487. Estimate $100.
Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Anatolia & al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). Artuqids (Mardin). Nasir al-Din Artuq Arslan. AH 597-637 / AD 1200-1239. Æ Dirhem (32mm, 14.37 g, 11h). Mardin mint. Dated AH 599 (AD 1202/3). Centaur advancing right, head facing, drawing bow at mouth of dragon emerging from his tail; mint and AH date around / Names and titles of the Caliph al-Nasir and the Ayyubid overlord al-‘Adil Abu Bakr, as well as the territorial title of Artuq Arslan in five lines and continuing into margin. Whelan Type II; S&S Type 38.1; Album 1830.2. Near VF, green patina.


From the J.P. Righetti Collection.